The scale of urban growth read as self-evident is historically unprecedented

Evidence

This rapid and massive urbanization is often referred to as “the urban revolution,” 7 a revolution that is most certainly still in progress. We moderns have become rather blase about this phenomenon. It has, for many of us, become a part of our taken-for-granted worlds. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 313